This morning we are in Rudesheim. As we had visited this town before, we skipped the organized tour, had a leisurely start to our day, then walked down to the town on our own.
While we are moored opposite a lovely park, the town is unfortunately cut off from the river by the railway.
Still its back streets and alleys are very picturesque.
To celebrate Mother’s Day, I shouted Jeanette a Rudesheim coffee. Making these is a rather involved process and the waitress arrived at our table with all the ingredients including little 40ml bottles of brandy which had been preheated in a special oven behind the bar.
She poured the brandy on the sugar cubes and set it alight. After some vigorous stirring, she added the coffee then put a great lump of whipped cream on the top. It did taste rather nice.
Back on the boat we set off around 2pm for our transit of the Rhine Gorge. This very beautiful stretch of the river has some 40 castles built along it.
We started out up on the top deck, but although the sun was shining, the wind was icy cold and we were soon driven back to the shelter of our cabin.
Still the river twists and turns so much in this part, I don’t think we missed very much
Hardys’ Travels 
I want that coffee!!
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